Vegetative State
The vegetative state
... the vegetative state is based on two main sources of information: a detailed clinical history and careful (but subjective) observation of the patient’s spontaneous and elicited ...tive state may have ...
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Ethics roundtable debate: Withdrawal of tube feeding in a patient with persistent vegetative state where the patients wishes are unclear and there is family dissension
... not state this as a criterion for wanting to continue life in a vegetative ...a vegetative state supports her husband’s decision to remove the feeding tube, thus allowing the patient to ...
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Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity (Sympathetic Storm) in a Patient with Permanent Vegetative State
... Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity (PSH) is a relatively common complication of traumatic brain injury; however it has not been previously reported as a late complication of a stable patient in a permanent ...
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Exploring the Role of Spirituality in Coping Process of Family Caregivers of Patients in Vegetative State
... God as the source of hope and dreams for the future was mentioned by family caregivers as effective for the continuity of care and moving toward the future [40]. Hope is a psychological source which helped caregivers ...
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Joyless Life and Lifeless Joy: The Recovery of Hedonic Damages by Plaintiffs in a Persistent Vegetative State
... persistent vegetative state] had suffered a loss of enjoyment of life and instructed the jury that such a loss is an element of disability, pain, and ...persistent vegetative state to recover ...
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Information Seeking Experiences of Family Caregivers of Patients with Persistent Vegetative State: A Qualitative Study
... Persistent Vegetative State (PVS) by family caregivers without enough training and knowledge may be problematic both for the patients and for the ...
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Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Monti MM 1. Disorders of consciousness: Coma, Vegetative State and Minimally Conscious State
... the Vegetative State (The Multi-Society Task Force on PVS, ...persistent vegetative state, after which the chances of recovery decrease with ...permanent vegetative state is ...
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Physicians’ attitudes toward medical and ethical challenges for patients in the vegetative state: comparing Canadian and German perspectives in a vignette survey
... Cite this article as: Kuehlmeyer et al.: Physicians’ attitudes toward medical and ethical challenges for patients in the vegetative state: comparing Canadian and German perspectives in a[r] ...
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Does any aspect of mind survive brain damage that typically leads to a persistent vegetative state? Ethical considerations
... a vegetative state may experience raw affective experiences, the mere discontinuation of life support in the form of food or drink cannot be a viable strategy, if the goal remains to "do no ...
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An assessment of the court’s role in the withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration from patients in the permanent vegetative state
... a vegetative state (though not a PVS) were found to be similar to a healthy ...tive state were found to be able wilfully to modulate brain ...
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Single photon emission computed tomography scanning: A predictor of outcome in vegetative state of head injury.
... remained vegetative at one ...remained vegetative post injury according to the criteria of Jennett and Plum, at one month, were considered for the ...of vegetative patients regained consciousness by ...
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Public perception of the vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: A crowdsourced study
... about vegetative state and unresponsive wakefulness syndrome also suggest that terminology ...the vegetative state were “dehumanizing”, “offensive”, “ignorant” and “pejorative”, whereas many ...
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Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis in a young female misdiagnosed as migraine ending in a permanent vegetative state: a case report and review of the literature
... twice daily was started. Moreover, a neurosurgeon, who was consulted, evaluated her 10 hours later and agreed to proceed with an extraventricular drain (EVD) to relieve the early hydrocephalus. However, despite EVD ...
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Communicating Through a Brain-Computer Interface: Towards the Assessment of Quality of Life in Minimally Conscious and Covertly Aware Vegetative State Patients
... a vegetative state or minimally conscious state, or die (Laureys, Owen, & Schiff, ...2004). Vegetative patients display sleep-wake cycles along with motor reflexes but fail to communicate, ...
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Recovery From Vegetative State: A Four-Years Follow Up
... the vegetative state, the lower the probability of emerging from it remains true, reports of late improvement are ever more common in the ...from Vegetative State in a group of inpatients in a ...
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Visual fixation in the vegetative state: an observational case series PET study
... the vegetative state; VS [1,2]) or whether it is a cognitively mediated behavior that heralds consciousness and higher order cortical processing ...minimallyconscious state; MCS ...guidelines ...
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ETHICAL GUIDELINES FOR THE CARE OF PEOPLE IN POST-COMA UNRESPONSIVENESS (VEGETATIVE STATE) OR A MINIMALLY RESPONSIVE STATE N H M R C
... People in PCU or MRS are particularly vulnerable members of our community. Because they are unable to communicate, they can be at risk of abuse, neglect or exploitation from people in positions of trust. Abuse does ...
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Cerebral response to subject’s own name showed high prognostic value in traumatic vegetative state
... Methods: 66 patients were included, and the response of each subject to his/her own name said by a familiar voice (SON-FV) was recorded using fMRI; 13 patients were scanned twice in the same day, respecting the exact ...
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The Resilient Care of Patients with Vegetative State at Home: a Grounded Theory
... The need for a variety of consumable supplies including all types of nelaton catheters, foley catheter, stomach catheter, sterile gas, serum, medications, band-aids, nappies and extensive hygiene needs were among the ...
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Practice parameters: Assessment and management of patients in the persistent vegetative state (Summary statement)
... These parameters, as defined by the Glasgow Outcome Scale, were used as outcome measures to calculate probabilities for recovery in adults and children in PVS 3 months and[r] ...
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